Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 7
3. List of Illustrations and Tables 9
4. Introduction 11
5. GLIMPSES OF THE COLONIAL ECONOMY
6. CHAPTER 1 The colonial bazaar in ‘Portuguese Timor’: the taming of the ‘savage marketers’ 45
7. CHAPTER 2 Indexing social space: A marketplace in Timor-Leste 65
8. CHAPTER 3 Flirting with Ford, reverting to race? Housing, urban planning and the making of an economic and social order in Portuguese Timor in trans-colonial perspective, 1959-1963 85
9. LOCAL ECONOMIC DYNAMICS
10. CHAPTER 4 On the existence and persistence of the social category of atan in contemporary Timor-Leste 107
11. CHAPTER 5 The serimónia network : economic mobilisation through rituals in the hamlet of Faulara, Liquiçá 123
12. CHAPTER 6 Household decision-making processes and family resources : A case study from Viqueque 147
13. CHAPTER 7 Gift economy and the acknowledgement of debt : (On) Living and eating with ‘mystical’ actors in Timorese houses 161
14. CHAPTER 8 The work of women in Eluli and land economies in Timor-Leste 177
15. ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATIONS
16. CHAPTER 9 Land and diet under pressure : The impacts of Suai Supply Base in Kamanasa kingdom 195
17. CHAPTER 10 The socio-cultural benefits of emerging marketbased instruments for carbon in Timor-Leste 215
18. CHAPTER 11 China’s engagement in Timor-Leste’s economy 235
19. CHAPTER 12 Migrant work and homecoming: Experiences of Timorese seasonal workers 255
20. CHAPTER 13 Refashioning Fataluku origin houses 275
21. CHAPTER 14 The frente ekonomika (economic front) : Timorese perspectives on seasonal work in Australia 295
22. About the Authors 313
23. Index 317